 Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? |
| You are always new, The last of your kisses was ever the sweetest. |
| It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. |
| There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. |
| You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task. |
| I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else. |
| I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. |
| Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen. |
| A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. |
| The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. |
| What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth. |
| Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss. |
| Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. |
| The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. |
| I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination. |
| With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. |
| Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. |
| Love is my religion - I could die for it. |
| He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead. |
| There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. |
